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What gives Documentary Films a voice of their own?

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A Film Documentary is a fictional text.

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There are 6 main types of film documentary. What are they?

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From the video, what are some of the key strategies and techniques suggested as ways film directors best prepare for the planning of a film documentary?

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Explain how the TONE of voice in the narrated voice-over conveys the MOOD of the extract from the documentary.

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What is non-diegetic sound?

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List some of the topics about which film documentaries have been made in recent years.

The interview is a common documentary technique. It allows people being filmed to speak directly about events, prompted by the questions asked by the filmmaker. An interview may take place on screen, or off screen, on a different set. Interviews in a documentary give the viewer a sense of realism, that the documentary maker’s views are mutually shared by another person or source, and thus more valid. To achieve this much detail from what may be a one-hour interview, clips of only a few minutes are shown. Interviews on opposing sides of an issue may be shown to give the viewer comprehensive information about a topic.
Interviews are also a very important technique for character introduction. Lighting, color scheme, framing and camera angle all impact the audience's perception of the person who is speaking. As with narratives, this can lend to a specific feel the director wishes to convey about the person speaking. The impact to the story is key, as the audience will form an opinion of the person based on the initial meeting.
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Explain your thoughts on whether interviews are an essential feature of film documentaries?

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Some techniques or features of the documentary genre are:

* Actuality in relation to documentary films.
* Voice-over.
* Direct and indirect interviews.
* Archival footage.
* Re-enactment.
* Montage.
* Exposition.
Explain how TONE might be conveyed by one (or more) of these.

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The term 'mise-en-scene' means literally “placing on stage” in French. To explain it simply, mise en scène refers to what we see onscreen in a film. It's the film's visuals; meaning, all of the elements that appear on camera and their arrangement.

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If you were given the facilities and chance to plan and produce a film documentary, what topic would you choose and why. Justify your ideas.